EFFECT OF CONCEPT MAPPING ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY STUDENTS IN BOSSO LOCAL GOVERNMENT MINNA, NIGER STATE

Abstract

The study is investigated on Effect of Concept Mapping on Academic Performance of Secondary School Geography Students in Bosso Local Government Minna, Niger State. Based on the findings of the study, on lecture instructional strategy learning instruction on the academic achievement of concept of Concept mapping by Geography students. it could be concluded that on lecture instructional strategy helps to improve the achievement of student. The study further highlighted the positive influence of on lecture instructional strategy on academic achievement of student in Geography. The population for this study will consists of all senior secondary two (SS2) students registered in government co- educational senior secondary schools located in Bosso Local Government. They are government owned schools; operate same academic calendar and same curriculum. The total student’s population consists of 1333 consisting of 547 males and 786 females. All schools offer courses in Geography with particular reference to measurement, which is relevant to this study. Mean and standard deviation are used to analyse the research questions and inferential statistics t-test was used to analyze the null hypotheses at ρ ≤ 0.05 level of significance. From the findings of the study it could be concluded that there is significance difference between the mean achievement score of those students taught lecture instructional strategy is 29.91, SD = 5.33, while those wealthier measurement using concept mapping is 35.36 and the SD=3.62, df = 78, with p-value of 0.02 2 < 0.05. the findings of the showed that there is no significant difference in mean achievement score of male and female students taught using concept map with p-value of 0.89, Based on the findings of the study the following recommendation was made: The Ministry of Education should encourage the using concept mapping instructional strategy in teaching Geography in Senior Secondary School, School Authority and teachers should be enlightened on the importance of lecture instructional strategy in teaching and the students should also be enlightened on the importance of concept map of learning to their careers.